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Bolts I misplaced for the oil pump. Also a new intake and decided to replace the lower timing belt gears. Will be the 4th intake and first time replacing all the gears. AVCS gears have been here. After looking at all the chips on the lowers from install/removal plus 250K miles... It's peace of mind. Should have most everything else. Going all new hoses. All in stock best I can figure. Of course there will always be something I missed.

WayMO betta. Looking forward to plowing thru some more of the install once my parts arrive. Have shipping confirmation.

And a quick fix for the machine shop at M45. They provided me new gaskets for the head and cam seals. Clearly someone dropped this casting on it's edge. It wasn't me. Rep looked but didn't have these angles in the pictures taken. Regardless stand up shop making a customer happy. Nice to see the machine shop expanding to another building across the street. They are moving forward with closed deck bocks providing shipping to shops in the west out to Colorado. 10 min then a little more time talking to the head machinist. Longest part was the 2 hour drive to the shop. But took advantage and went up to see the Mother unit. She's prepping for Knee surgery beginning of next month. New custom parts! I'm still waiting for my last Heuberger order... Last I checked they were waiting for another oil pump bolt. Least back to where I was a week ago.

Especially since it's at the foundation. Be a PITA after installed to fix.

Hard pause. Pulled the head. I could still see seal deflection. Taking up to the machine shop for them to fix it. Only loss is time and three gaskets. Head and two cam seals. Could probably use the lower again but F it. Just get new.

Pic of the offending cam hole after "correction". Should seal.

Ripped into it for some time last night. The good: Took 6 hours last to get the valve lash set. Had one that was a clerical error transposing English standard to metric. Luckily there was a spare bucket in the horde that fit the need. 4.81mm is a little different than 4.91mm. Intake all .008" and Exhaust all .014" plenty of room for bed in. Front caps screwed and glued. All torqued to spec. 14.5fp for the mains and the front get 7.5fp. Use Ultra black in this location and also the next step the valve covers. The bad: Had one realization that the shop had damaged a seal bore. Looks like a drop to me. Cleaned up the inside bore and crossing my fingers and toes it's going to seal. Going to call the shop rep and at least let him know.

Buckets arrived. I'm back home. Hot as hell. Family woes may stall work. Fathers wife passed a couple days ago. Hard to hear him sobbing on the phone recounting the event.

Correction 8 buckets were ordered. I had some changing variables after taking another pass. So for the most part the shop was half right. But again I'm splitting hairs here going for perfection. Thanks Max. Well see how long this one lasts. Cooling mod will probably help a little. Need to get this back on the road ASAP. My Daughter will be needing the slush box to get to school and back for the near future. We drove around in the Toyota Pickup. She did ok driving stick but were a long way from cutting her loose with it. She was sweating bullets once I forced her into public roads.

Some progress... Finally. Had to polish the passenger cam/journals a little. For some reason passenger side was really tight. Cams needed help to spin. Now with less stiction. Buckets ordered, i'm splitting hairs but hoping for a nice even lash gap across all. 10 buckets ordered Sunday. Still havent received shipping notice. Funny one was really shallow 4.66 is needed in one location.

Sad day finding out the H6 was canned. Looking at the site. I laugh at the NA going 2.5 and the Turbo models going 2.4 including the bloated Ascent.

Been busy. Got the "flu" on the way back from the midwest on 7/1. That killed a week. Need to go over the valve gap again. Built a spreadsheet to help ID new bucket size. PITA converting back and forth from imperial to metric and back. So far looks like I need 10 buckets. With money tight for the moment all on hold until I recoup a little from buying most of what I needed for this rebuild. Have another long business trip to the east coast early next month. So I'll probably be able to keep going mid August. Now one interesting item is the passenger cams are not as free in the journals as the drivers side. Next step is to plastiguage them and make sure they are not too tight.

Well then go for broke with lubes then. Little heat never hurt either, hair dryer is plenty.

Thought they were but the caps did look BBS ish so I kept my mouf shut. Great looking wagon sir.

Spit on it. Works well for other applications as well.

You need an inch lb wrench. Plus a tap to dead head and chase the threads.

Precisely the argument my boss has. In the long run he's saving. I would just have a hard time consolidating to not have a garage. It's all doable. Good luck on the purge.

My Group Lead did this years ago and is very happy. Only thing he will not do is have a friend back his Dually onto the boat ramp any more. He's still waiting for the Ford replacement after sinking the Dodge in the lake. Should only be a month more of the 8 to 12 week wait.

Better than me trying the boot only to find the CV was not happy any more. Doing the install twice sucked but he is doing a great job.

I wanna see that run.

Crossing fingers and toes man.

Yes. Happens. Just need to clean it out.

That connector is a ground loop that is useless. Must be plugged in or female connections looped on the harness side. When I used the Perrin intake it was removed from the hose. Wire harness connected and tucked away.

Yeah the ol famous last words... Oh, that's inch pounds not foot pounds.

Here are some picks of the motor compartment bits.